(“ZETA”)

“ENGINEERING WAR”

“TheChancellor of the Exchequer was right when he said: ‘This is an
engineers’ war.’ We are seeing the impress
of the engineer on every phase of the stupendous struggle now in progress
throughout the world. No longer is engineering a side-line. It has become
the principal feature of war, so much so ‘that Eye-Witness’ has seen fit to
call the present ‘the petrol war’ in the course of his recent description
of the part played by mechanical traction on the Continent. To call it ‘the
oil war’ would probably be more accurate since this term would also include
the Fleet, so far as many of its greatest and smallest craft—as
represented by super-dreadnoughts and submarines—are concerned.”

TheQueen Elizabeth is one of the first “all-oil”
vessels. Less cost. The chief thing is the speed in fuelling, etc., etc. A
gigantic technical advance.

Thetransition to “internal-combustion-engined war ships” is
imminent. Commercial ships are already making the transition.